[Python-Dev] setuptools: past, present, future

[Guido van Rossum]

I was actually referring to the quality of the code.

On 4/22/06, John J Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [...]
> >> Python sorely lacks; but I've also heard from more than one person
> >> that CPAN sucks from a quality perspective. So I think we shouldn't
> [...]
> > (as for the CPAN quality, any public repository will end up being full
> > of crap; I don't see any way to work around that.  automatic scoring
> [...]
>
> I had assumed Guido was referring to the quality of the infrastructure,
> including CPAN.pm, rather than the quality of the code stored in CPAN.
>
> I've certainly heard at least two people complain about the usability and
> reliability of the CPAN infrastructure recently, and recall I found it
> rather unfriendly myself.  But that was around 5 years ago; I may simply
> be wrong or out of date.
>
>
> John
>
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